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Bengt Ohlsson: Gregorius

Libra

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Whoever has read Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg,knows who Gregorius is.

The book got me hooked from the very first pages with Gregorius looking in the mirror thinks:

*If the man in the mirror was a flower,it would be a matter of time before the gardner would stop,frown,put down his watering can and bend to nip it off:a withering growth beyond saving*

Gregorius, a man obsessed with his young wife,imagines, daydreams,analyzes every little thought,every little thing he comes across from, to the point where one thinks he is loosing it.

He takes us on an emotional and thought provoking rollercoaster that you really don't want to get off from.Even though there is alot of details and disections of feelings and people and everything around him,I didn't want this story to end.

..."she whispers that I have the same effect on herbody,like when the snow melts after endless winter,and all the dry branches come to life with young green leaves,and the air vibrates with the twittering of small birds that have been away so long she'd forgotten they even existed,and the stems rustle,and sing in the melting snow,and snap off the ice piece by piece,playfully carying it far away,and she whispers that her body which for so long has been mute and anaesthetised,is now so full of warmth and hope and life that she hardly knows what to do...."

His imagination or a reality? Sometimes even the reader tends to forget.

Amazing book,great characters.They stay in your thoughts even after you are done reading it,MO ofcourse.:D

Like beergood said,I can't wait for someone to write Helga's point of view.
 
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